Charting the U.S. Role in the World Economy 2016
This brief describes a report presenting the strategic choices the United States faces regarding the international economy over the term of the next presidential administration.
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Expeditionary Civilians: Creating a Viable Practice of Civilian Deployment Within the U.S. Interagency Community and Among Foreign Defense Organizations 2016
An end-to-end review of guidance across the civilian deployment process in the U.S. Department of Defense involved investigating the deployment approaches of analogous organizations, both U.S. and foreign. This report describes the requirements that generate the need for deployable civilians, the types of missions civilians support, and the methods that organizations use to identify, select, track and deploy civilians.
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Expeditionary Civilians: Informing Department of Defense Civilian Deployment Policy and Practice 2016
RAND conducted an end-to-end review and analysis of Department of Defense civilian deployment to inform policy and practice for using deployable civilians to meet mission needs ten to 20 years into the future.
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Expeditionary Civilians: Creating a Viable Practice of Department of Defense Civilian Deployment 2016
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy requires identification of a subset of civilians to be organized, trained, and equipped to respond to expeditionary requirements. This research presents the results of an end-to-end review and analysis of DoD civilian deployment, assesses the viability of current DoD civilian deployment practice, and proposes a systematic approach to developing and maintaining DoD's civilian deployment capability.
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Defense Institution Building: An Assessment 2016
This report presents an analysis of a range of defense institution building (DIB) programs and activities, recommends a set of goals and objectives for achieving them, identifies partner nation and DIB activity selection criteria, develops a strategy for coordinating DIB activities, and recommends procedures for achieving accountability and assessment.
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A Rapidly Changing Urban Environment: How Commercial Technologies Can Affect Military Intelligence Operations 2016
Commonplace commercial technologies highlight a democratizing trend that gives more people the freedom and power to use any number of new, commercially available technologies to innovate and to challenge existing government rules and community practices. This democratizing trend, however, comes at a cost to privacy, security, and secrecy and is changing the way people interact socially and politically.
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Rethinking Risk in National Security: Lessons of the Financial Crisis for Risk Management 2016
This book examines the role of risk management in the recent financial crisis and applies lessons learned to the national security realm. It rethinks the way risk contributes to strategy, with insights relevant to practitioners and scholars in national security as well as business.
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Technological Lessons from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Accident 2016
This study draws lessons regarding technological countermeasures to radioactive contamination caused by the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant accident. It focuses on contamination measurement, efforts to limit dispersal, decontamination, and storage of radioactive materials. The report analyzes technological successes and identifies capability gaps that could be redressed through novel technologies or improved use of existing technologies.
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Sustaining Service Members and Their Families: Exploring Opportunities for Efficiency and Joint Provision of Services Using Nonappropriated Funds 2016
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) sought to determine whether any administrative activities paid for with funding that was not congressionally appropriated could be consolidated — and, if so, whether consolidation would save costs. A DoD task force listed several areas for improvement, ranging from contracting to information technology. RAND reviewed the work of the task force and assessed specific recommendations.
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Exploring Opportunities for Efficiency and Joint Provision of Services Using Nonappropriated Funds 2016
In examining two areas (accounting and employee benefits) where the Department of Defense might spend less nonappropriated funding, RAND assessed costs and challenges and identified ways to manage organizational changes in the face of resistance.
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Reforming the American Military Officer Personnel System: Addendum: Thoughts on Contractors 2016
Document submitted on May 24, 2016 as an addendum to testimony presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee on December 2, 2015.
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Ten Frequently Asked Questions About Veterans' Transitions: Results of a Decade of RAND Work on Veteran Life 2016
This document compiles the RAND Corporation's body of work on veterans' transitions to civilian life and highlights the breadth of topics RAND has studied. It distills more than a decade's worth of research on many facets of veteran life into a set of ten questions and answers gleaned from this work.
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Collaborative Disaster Preparedness: Vietnam, the United States, and Regional Experiences (Proceedings from Da Nang, Vietnam, August 18–20, 2015) 2016
This report summarizes the workshop on Collaborative Disaster Preparedness that was conducted in August 2015 in Da Nang, Vietnam, and hosted by the Collaborative & Adaptive Security Initiative (CASI). CASI partnered with key members of the Disaster Management Working Group for Vietnam to include the Oregon National Guard, the Office of Defense Cooperation from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, and the Center for Excellence.
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Foundations of the Islamic State: Management, Money, and Terror in Iraq, 2005–2010 2016
Drawing from 140 recently declassified documents, this report comprehensively examines the organization, territorial designs, management, personnel policies, and finances of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and al-Qa'ida in Iraq. Analysis of the Islamic State predecessor groups is more than a historical recounting. It provides significant understanding of how ISI evolved into the present-day Islamic State and how to combat the group.
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The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DMHA): An Assessment of Roles and Missions 2016
The Department of Defense's Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DMHA) was established in 1994 to provide and facilitate education, training, and research in civil-military operations. This report examines CFE-DMHA's history, activities, and roles to determine how its missions can best be performed to achieve the objectives of the Department of Defense in this domain.
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